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That's a bad bug and the default should be changed. In publishing production environments based on word-processing software, the default now is always to have j

That's a bad bug and the default should be changed. In publishing production environments based on word-processing software, the default now is always to have just one space after each period in a manuscript. (Yeah, I learned to type under the old rule, but I am OLD, and no one learning to type now should type more than one space after a period ending a sentence.)

zanny 14y ago
I'm 21 and learned using the two spaces method. I still do it instinctively, I've been trying to unlearn the behaviour though.
DanBC 14y ago
I have no idea why you were downvoted. Some editors prevent you from adding two spaces. (https://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/lyx/Tutorial.tex.html https://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/lyx/Tutorial.tex.html) It's something I still do. I can't break the habit.
jcurbo 14y ago
32 here and I learned the two space rule. Still haven't broken the habit. Thankfully on iOS if you hit space twice quickly it inserts a period and one space.
bronxbomber92 14y ago
20 year old here who learned the two space rule in elementary. However, they didn't teach us how to properly type until high school, so all (or most) the bad habits I learned beforehand, including the two space rule, went out the door as a result.
dllthomas 14y ago
To my mind the two-space rule still applies when you are writing text to be displayed in a mono-space font. Otherwise, one space, yes. This unfortunately means you need different habits for the two environments, unless the software compensates somehow.
- podperson 14y ago
  Personally, I think the two space rule is simply bad. Writing text "to be displayed in a mono-space font" confuses content with presentation.
  - dllthomas 14y ago
    If you're designing a system that will be displaying things in a monospace font, making it automatically add additional spacing may be reasonable but that is itself an application of the rule! If you're using an existing system (or, say, laying out a poster in a monospace font), then the notion that "you should ignore the rule because to do otherwise would be confusing content with presentation" is a confusion of another kind. One place I'm a bit torn is comments in code, but I think I come down on the side that says "my editor shouldn't be trying to guess which comments are simply paragraphs of text and which may have things I'm trying to line up - monospace should work like monospace" and in this case you should be adding two spaces for clarity.

zanny 14y ago

I'm 21 and learned using the two spaces method. I still do it instinctively, I've been trying to unlearn the behaviour though.

DanBC 14y ago

I have no idea why you were downvoted. Some editors prevent you from adding two spaces. (https://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/lyx/Tutorial.tex.html https://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/lyx/Tutorial.tex.html) It's something I still do. I can't break the habit.

jcurbo 14y ago

32 here and I learned the two space rule. Still haven't broken the habit. Thankfully on iOS if you hit space twice quickly it inserts a period and one space.

bronxbomber92 14y ago

20 year old here who learned the two space rule in elementary. However, they didn't teach us how to properly type until high school, so all (or most) the bad habits I learned beforehand, including the two space rule, went out the door as a result.

dllthomas 14y ago

To my mind the two-space rule still applies when you are writing text to be displayed in a mono-space font. Otherwise, one space, yes. This unfortunately means you need different habits for the two environments, unless the software compensates somehow.

podperson 14y ago
Personally, I think the two space rule is simply bad. Writing text "to be displayed in a mono-space font" confuses content with presentation.
- dllthomas 14y ago
  If you're designing a system that will be displaying things in a monospace font, making it automatically add additional spacing may be reasonable but that is itself an application of the rule! If you're using an existing system (or, say, laying out a poster in a monospace font), then the notion that "you should ignore the rule because to do otherwise would be confusing content with presentation" is a confusion of another kind. One place I'm a bit torn is comments in code, but I think I come down on the side that says "my editor shouldn't be trying to guess which comments are simply paragraphs of text and which may have things I'm trying to line up - monospace should work like monospace" and in this case you should be adding two spaces for clarity.